The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Quote by TS Eliot

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Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always...

Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always...

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it...

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it...

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made...

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made...

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be...

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be...

The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.

The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find...

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find...

This love is silent.

This love is silent.

The heart and the mind has the shortest distance but has the longest journey.

The heart and the mind has the shortest distance but has the longest journey.

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the...

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the...

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after -...

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after -...

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Those who trust us educate us.

Those who trust us educate us.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

A father is a banker provided by nature.

A father is a banker provided by nature.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason